The rainbow flag was “hip” in the 70’s. Only later did the homos appropriate it for themselves (much like white racists appropriated the Confederate Naval Jack).
Sometimes a co-incidence is just that.
It does make it hard to see the patterns working under the surface.
A symbol of a promise by The Almighty to mankind has been twisted by the homolobby to represent something The Almighty finds to be an abomination.
How well do they think that will work out?
I knew a Methodist pastor back in the 80s that had a rainbow flag bumper sticker, so yeah, it has been around that long.
In the mid-80s, I recall starting to see those rainbow stickers around, usually accompanied with stickers of unicorns and stars, and most often on the back windshields of old VW beetles, driven by flakey girls.
Didn’t really come to associate it with homos until the 1990s. Seeing as this tv episode is from 1992-93 era, it might have caused me to raise my eyebrows a bit. But probably not most people. Most average adults back then, even as recently as 20 years ago, just weren’t so cognizant of these little subculture cues as they are now.
Obama always gets rainbow snow cones and eats like this.
A couple of years ago I went to a bank in San Francisco to cash a check and presented my Hawaii driver license, which features a large rainbow. The cashier said to me: "Oh Cool! Where did you get the Gay ID?"
My new DL features a picture of Mount McKinley with the big dipper and north star superimposed so I probably won't get that question again.
All I know is that the son on “Who’s The Boss” was sure to grow up to be a flamer, and I was right.
I don’t know about the rainbow flag issue for that time frame, but I can say that TV programs were definitely pushing all sorts of social agenda back then. I would not let the grandchildren watch those shows.
If I had to park them in front of the idiot box, which I have yet to do when mine are visiting, I would find the channel that plays the old “Lone Ranger” series.
I can tell you where they stole the rainbow flag from.
My niece was a rainbow girl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Order_of_the_Rainbow_for_Girls) related to Masons and Eastern Star.
They had the rainbow flag but didn’t copyright it. The Homos flat out stole the flag and rainbow girls had to give it up when the meaning changed. I’m not sure but maybe they reversed the colors?